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Visualizing The Big Data Industrial Complex [Infographic]

Behold the ever expanding rings of big data, tech’s most overhyped sector. I say overhyped, yet demand is fierce for software, hardware and consulting services that help companies process and store giant streams of varied and frequently changing information. According to research collective Wikibon, big data is an $18 billion market on its way to $50 billion in five years.

We used Wikibon data to produce this infographic showing how companies are distributed within the big data sectors, with each company sized according to what percentage of its revenue is derived from big data. Got a problem with the methodology? The comment box is below. In general, the names in the inner circle are purer plays with the newest science, and are likely to get gobbled up by the growth-hungry incumbents on the outside. Interesting to see that IBM, for all its talk about data and smarter planets, only gets 1% of its revenue from the trend.

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US President Barack Obama has said that Americans are facing competition from India and China and exuded confidence that young Americans can match or exceed anything that they do.

“You guys are all coming up in an age where you’re not going to be able to compete with people across town for good jobs — you?re going to be competing with the rest of the world. Young people in India and China, they’re all interested in trying to figure out how they get a foothold in this world economy,” Obama said while addressing students in Maryland yesterday.

“That’s who you’re competing against. Now, I’m confident you can match or exceed anything they do, but we don’t do it by just resting on what we’ve done before. We’ve got to out-work and out-innovate and out-hustle everybody else. We’ve got to think about new ways of doing things,” said the US President.

Obama said he wants to make sure every student in America has a chance to get that moment.

“you’re also going to be leading this country. That’s the chance that this country gave to me and Michelle. And that’s the chance I want for every single one of you,” he said.